elektromekatron

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by elektromekatron 11y ago
For added comedy points, the word 'aryan' means Indo-Iranian, at least according to Tolkien, who I suspect knows a thing or two about the meanings of words. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-have-no-
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Well, we can imagine another world where we still have superpowers with nukes pointed at each other but without big civil collaborative science projects going on between them. Both worlds could end up in an all-out nuclear war, but which on
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
They will if they think they can make money from doing so.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Helped keep the peace between the USSR and the USA through the cold war, by giving them something to collaborate on and so build some trust and keep communication going. edit - there is other stuff as well, but 'peace' seemed the
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Even basic ownership of small objects comes through force. Otherwise you'd drop them.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
We are going down that road here in the UK - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/crippling-court-c...
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Stop using difficult-to-guess passwords, UK's spying agency GCHQ recommends(independent.co.uk)
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Excellent. I shall dig it out from under the stairs then and give it a bit of a dust.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Communicating disrespect is a useful message in and of itself. If I am telling someone to get lost, I don't want to have to pussyfoot around like some character in an Elizabethan novel. edit - though maybe a Shakespearian play. I wonde
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
So at least they are Baysianly useful.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
A raspberry pi could probably do this quite well.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
How many keyboards do you need to type with? If a keyboard exists and a second one suddenly appears, giving it a separate buffer and keeping that buffer from doing anything until asked, would seem to be pretty sane.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
They may be following their training, however "poor" and "fundamentally different" are not mutually exclusive concepts. The fact that the US train their police force that it's OK to draw their weapons and potentiall
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Communicating that a conversation is now at an end is often a useful feature, rather than a bug.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Not if only half of it is written by Pynchon.
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"For example, a granny knot is much easier to undo, as its configuration of twists creates weaker forces within the knot. For centuries, sailors have observed such distinctions, choosing certain knots over others to secure vessels — l
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
They didn't, but then again they also now have a stylus, so at least they are consistent.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I want to be able to pick up anything and use it as a calligraphic stylus
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Not sure you are completely correct there, as he said it repeatedly in many contexts. "It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it." - Steve Jobs edited to add - "as soon as you have a stylus, you
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Photoplankton contribute to ice formation in clouds(phys.org)
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Murdoch's Fox buys National Geographic media unit(phys.org)
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Allegations of Dirty Tricks as Effort to “Rescue” Bitcoin Falters(technologyreview.com)
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I wonder how many of these things have got to Mars ahead of us.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
"Why did such a culture develop in these societies?" 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond is probably the best attempt at answering that that I have read. His version of the Needham Question was put to him by a mem
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
After reading his list, I feel pretty sorry for him and his kids. I'd hate to live like he does.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
As any fan of the Foundation series knows, the true power of mass data is not in chasing down individuals, but in being able to statistically predict and manipulate the group average. Google are not the only player in this area though, I su
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Vice's headline writer should maybe dial it back a little, unless Debian has become a rather different organization than when I last checked.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
That really should be an article title though.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I guess, is just that to think that FTL matters and ties up with causality means to grok relativity, and causality issues may be a result of a layman physics views of wormholes, but it generally isn't really a part of it. I think you a
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I am not sure I agree. For the layman, wormholes come in a couple of popular forms, and the most common is the one with a weird energy tunnel thing between the entrance and the exit. The version where the entrance is the exit, such as in th

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